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By CHRISTOPHER CARTWRIGHT

Local and state leaders involved in nonprofit and advocacy work spoke to U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan in Keene Monday about residents' struggles to afford housing and child care, adding that a proposed child tax credit expansion would help the problem.U.S....

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Many close observers of the 2024 presidential race have commented on Project 2025, the Republican plan for what they intend to do if Trump wins in November. The plan is a maximalist horror show that includes a...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

As the number of school-aged children in Concord drops and more families choose educational options outside public school, the Concord School District has seen a long pattern of declining enrollment.On the backdrop of shrinking elementary school class...

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OSSIPEE, N.H. — A New Hampshire man appeared in court Monday on charges that he killed a pregnant woman and her unborn child by means of multiple blunt force injuries, the first time the state has charged someone with murder in the death of a fetus....

This column changes certain key advice I set forth in my column last Saturday for New Hampshire business owners who formed their businesses before Jan. 1, 2024. I apologize to readers of this column for the column’s legal complexity. However, this...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Sticking to the message that has sustained his presidency, Joe Biden made the case that working and middle-class Americans shouldn’t be forced to pay high costs for prescription drugs and healthcare while corporations and the wealthiest Americans use...

By JOSH BOAK and FATIMA HUSSEIN

MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Joe Biden on Monday released a budget proposal aimed at getting voters’ attention: It would offer tax breaks for families, lower health care costs, smaller deficits and higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations.Unlikely...

By MARK SHERMAN

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to ban the Republican former president over the Capitol riot.The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN and MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A petition asking the Concord School Board to revisit its decision to locate a new middle school on the East Side has garnered almost 800 signatures, yet the chance of another vote remains dim.Few school board members have expressed a desire to reopen...

By JONATHAN HOPKINS

Rev. Jonathan Hopkins lives in Concord. I hear people say all the time, “Charity begins at home.” The idea is that we have enough people struggling with poverty right here in the United States why should we be giving money to people around the world?...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire likes to be different. To celebrate our uniqueness we point to things like motorcycle helmet freedom and cannabis lack of freedom – nobody said we were consistent – and freeway signage.Freeway signage? Yes, we are one of just a couple of...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In a best-case scenario, the Concord School District would receive no more than $32 million – less than half of what it asked for – in state money for the middle school project due to changes to the school building aid program taking effect this...

By ALLIE GINWALA

The Concord Monitor’s reader advisory board, an initiative to bring readers and community-minded individuals together to talk about local news, welcomed its third group of readers into the newsroom in January. Our new board members are Robert Avery,...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD, N.H. — Lawyers representing 1,400 men and woman who allege they were abused as children at New Hampshire’s youth detention centers said Tuesday they will recommend the state’s out-of-court settlement option for most of their clients if...

By KENNETH FERREIRA

Kenneth Ferreira is a vice president and director of Student Financial Services at Franklin Pierce University and president-elect of the Eastern Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. The FAFSA Simplification Act, passed in December...

By DAVID BROOKS

Almost a year after it failed a required emissions test and after a few unsuccessful attempts to complete the process, the Merrimack Station power plant in Bow has received a hard deadline from the state to meet air pollution guidelines.“There were...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The public might get a better understanding of what exactly is getting dumped in the state’s landfills and where it’s coming from, now that the Department of Environmental Services has initiated the first comprehensive study of the waste stream.Set to...

By JIM HADLEY

Jim Hadley lives in Northwood. Recently, the New Hampshire House, Science, and Technology Committee held a public hearing on a bill (HB 1623) that would slow the clean energy transition in the state. As a former state energy official in both New...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Details of what the Office of the Child Advocate called “horrifying” abuse and neglect of two New Hampshire boys placed by the state in a Tennessee youth facility are behind legislation that would require the state to substantially increase its...

By RAY DUCKLER

The deliberative session of the Pittsfield Town Meeting last Saturday attracted less than two dozen residents, who flew through 30 articles in an estimated 30 minutes.“We knocked them right out of the park,” Pittsfield Select Board Chairman Carl...